October 2024
Important Events
- Thursday October 3, 2024 and Friday October 4, 2024: Schools are closed in observance of Rosh Hashanah
- Monday October 14, 2024: Schools are closed for Indigenous People Day
Reading
Module 3-In this module, children will learn ways to listen to each other and work out disagreements. Through reading and collaboration, children will learn to see different points of view. Then they will be able to understand why people may disagree and why sometimes that might be okay! At home, reinforce these important topic words when you read or talk with your child: compromise, decision, disagreement. Try to incorporate questions into everyday conversations such as: “What would be a fair compromise for ___?”, “What is a good decision you made recently?”, “How could this disagreement be worked out?”
Writing
In this module, children will explore how people can work out disagreements with one another. They will learn that people have their own opinions, or feelings about topics. We will review how to be more effective in sharing our ideas when we listen and think about the ideas of others and how, sometimes, it is important to support your opinion with research. Last, the students will learn that others may agree or disagree with their opinion. At home, students can work with family members to think about why it is important to explain their point of view. Families can also help guide their child when they have had a disagreement with a friend or family member, how to express their ideas, and explain how they have worked out a disagreement with someone.
Phonics
Our FUNdations program lays the critical groundwork for foundational skills needed to supplement a literature –based language arts program. Each level of FUNdations builds upon the previous one. Rotating through diverse activities using different modalities and reinforcements supports learning and mastery while maintaining interest. Heggerty is a researched based program to build phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to isolate, substitute and manipulate sounds we hear transfers to the ability to do this when reading. At home, you can support your child by reinforcing the skills in the FUNdations At Home packet that is sent home at the beginning of each unit.
Math
Topic 2 is all about number and operation in base ten. The students will be practicing grouping tens as hundreds, explore three-digit numbers, place values to one thousand, and comparing numbers. When working with place value it is best to have a hundreds, tens, and ones chart. At home, you and your child can review basic addition and subtraction facts, fact families, doubles and near doubles facts and review place value and counting on by tens and hundreds and counting back. You can also review place value and counting on by tens and hundreds and counting back. In Topic 3, students will be learning to add within 100 using various strategies. Students will learn to add two-digit numbers using place-value strategies on a hundred chart. For example, start at a number on the chart. As you move down from the number, the number increases by 10 for each square. As you move to the right from the number, the number increases by 1 for each square. At home, students can explain to a family member how to add two-digit numbers using a hundred cart. Encourage your child to use math terms such as add, sum, equals, row column and hundred chart his or her explanation.
Social Studies
Our first unit is on Geography where we learn about different kinds of maps. We will look at a map of our state and observe all the geographic features such as mountains, lakes and rivers. We will then use the maps to learn about our city and the five boroughs. We will identify how people changed the land to make life easier for us to live. We will describe why we made all these changes. Next, we will be learning about the different kinds of communities: Rural, Urban and Suburban. You can support your child at home by looking at your community and surrounding neighborhood and pointing out what makes it a suburban community.